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Erik,

Same thing happened to me. I was the high bidder until you came along. After yours, my bid also was cancelled. As it turns out, I'm glad I was outbid but I would like to know what happened.

I emailed the seller asking him what happened. Looks like John Minutaglio won it.

The same thing with cancelled bids happened to a Modulus Quantum 6 I was watching. When I last checked, the bidding was up to around $1000. All the bids were cancelled with 20 minutes to go and it ending up selling for $355.00

I got an email from someone I think was the seller saying they had a 2020 for sale if I was interested, but to email them back at a different address than the message was sent from, so I'll just be ignoring that one.

I saw that. I assumed that he was just going to cancel everybody's at the end again so I just put in a bid...(thinking he was doing the appraisal-by-ebay thing). But sure enough it sold for a pretty good price.

Here's the seller's response:

"It was not cancelled by me! According to the bid history that I show, it was cancelled--along with several other bidders bids, shortly before the auction closed. Yours would have been the winning bid! If you didn't cancel your own bid, this should definately be reported! --Jim"

They were all cancelled 3 hours before the auction ended... Are you going to fight it? If somebody hacked his account I wouldn't understand the purpose of cancelling other people's bids...

FIrst thing to do is check your computer for spyware and virusues. The fact that your bids and others were cancelled is suspicious and I'd suspect your ebay account may be compromised due to spyware on your machine. Youc an run a free antivirus and spyware scan from www.trendmicro.com. You may have to download a new version of java to make it run, but it works well, and can remove much of what it may find on your machine if it finds anything.

If it does find something, I'd suggest to get it removed, and then change your ebay account password, and a paypal one also if you have it.

My computer is as clean as a whistle. I run Norton Internet Security, Spy Sweeper, and have my computer completely locked down.

Antivirus programs like Norton that are resident on your computer can be deactivated or made to ignore certain viruses and trojans/spyware if your machine is infected with something that does that. I work in IS/IT and have seen it many times. When you run the trendmicro scan and it finds something, suddenly the Norton will pop up and say it found something, whereas it wouldn't if you ran a scan with it. It does this because the trendmicro isn't resident on your computer and isn't affected in the same way as the Norton would be. Thats not to say that your computer isn't clean....you know it better than I do. But I wouldn't trust the Norton to find eveything, and just because it doesn't find anything when you run a scan doesn't mean your computer is completely clean.

I echo Greg's comments, based on personal experience. I ran an online AV scan using Bit Defender and it found (and deleted) two trojans/worms in e-mails that Norton, Spybot, and AdAware did not find.

Oh, I would DEFINITELY complain to eBay about the cancelled bids; if you didn't cancel it yourself, I'd request the "transaction log" from eBay which would tell you what IP address the "session" which created the cancellation came from. Then use ARIN to track down what ISP that IP address belongs to and start making legal threats (hacking is a federal crime).

I've seen this happen on a number of auctions lately. I didn't bid on any of them, or even have them in my watch list. I just happened to bookmark them at work, noticed they ended at an insanely low price, then checked the bidding history. Sure enough, all the bids were cancelled shortly before the end of the auction. A Modulus Quantum 6 went for $355 and a really nice Ken Smith 6 ended at $31 (reserve not met. The highest bid was over $2k and cancelled.)

Maybe ebay has been hacked?

My ebay account got compromised when I got a question about an auction that I was not involved in ... I went to the link and typed in my id and password ... this data was harvested and my account was hacked ... I promptly changed my password and got control of the account ...

So beware answering questions about auctions you are not involved in ... and beware of links in emails ... go to the ebay web site and log in ...

I haven't been involved in an ebay auction, selling or buying in months. I'm constantly getting one of those ebay questions about my items like Jeff is talikng about. With all the scams going on, it makes me wonder if I'll be buying or selling much on ebay anymore.

you have to be careful ... every crook in the world has access to ebay ...